Dead Eye, Thirteen, Ends Toy Highwayman Career
Frank Kraus, 13, known as Dead Eye, led a brief spree armed with a water pistol and nails, robbing Mrs. Manning of 100 dollars a ring and watches before police captured him. He was taken to the children's society as officers searched the area for more alleged thefts.
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New York
Donjon
Children’s ‘Society
Frank Kraus
East Seventy Sixth Street
Dead Eye
Palma Manning
Mrs. Manning
Seventy-fifth Street
First Avenue
Shea
Sixty-seventh Street
Frankie Kraus
Children’s Society
Esther Wright Blushes in Court Over Advances
In Milwaukee Esther Wright appeared in open court exposing bruises she says Oscar Teweles, a deaf mute, inflicted while making advances in sign language. The judge noted her blushes and the case proceeded with court actions likely to follow.
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Milwaukee
Esther Wright
Esther
Oscar Teweles
Advertise your spring goods
Classified excerpt shows a brief prompt encouraging readers to advertise spring merchandise. The line hints at local advertising space in a community newspaper. No specific names, dates, or prices are provided in the readable text.
Is there real relief for rheumatism seekers
An ad proclaims rheumatism caused by a germ in the blood and promotes S. S. S. as a long used remedy. It claims lotions cannot help and invites readers to write to the Swift Specific Co. for personal advice from the Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta, Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Slacker arrests in county prompt first round
Officers raid a home and arrest Herbert Schuler and others on slacker charges. The elder Schuler and his son were jailed on bail, with related detentions and hearings continuing. Benner and Funk face age disputes, while Herbert Schuler later registered under the selective draft law.
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Schuler
Fred. Schuler
Herbert Schuler
Navy
United States
J. H. Lacy, Jr
Benner
Charlottesville
K. Schuler
W. J Schuler
Funk
Herbert Schaler
Americans Await 10 Return Home From Constantinople
More than 125 Americans remain in Constantinople awaiting Austrian permission to traverse Turkish territory toward Switzerland. The Austrian government is willing to grant permits and the Turkish government has allowed departure, but individual authorizations had not yet been issued from Vienna as of the cable dispatch.
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Washington
Constantinople
Switzerland
Vienna
Baby Chicks at Reduced Prices This Season
Advertisement lists baby chicks hatching eggs on sale with Reds Rocks Langshang Minorcas Wei Bath species and contact 129 A Reich Rehe. Sale dates include May 28. Local dealer E Cork Sr promotes balance of season discounts.
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Rocks
Langshang
Minorcas
Wei Bath
A. Reich Rehe
E. Cork Sr
Macedonian King’s Shadow Quips Sparta After Chaeronea
Philip of Macedon boasted after Chaeronea, defeating the Greeks, and sent a boastful letter to King Archidamus of Sparta. Archidamus replied with a sharp retort about measuring shadows and size since Philip’s victory.
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Philip of
Macedonia
Chaeronea
Sparta
Archidamus
Watercress Grower Fights Caddis Loss from Herons
A large watercress grower faced three quarters of his crop ruined by caddis worms. Investigation shows trout predators were eliminated by a flock of herons, reversing nature’s control and causing economic damage to the watercress patch.
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Washington Star
Entertaining the Carpenter in a Curious Exchange
Elsa, keeping a social duty to entertain a carpenter, asks about his family. The man confirms a father and mother, then mentions three half brothers and three half sisters. She blankly asks if he is the only one there was, highlighting a humorous misread of his extended family.
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Elsa
Tomio
Penns Treaty Era Links with Nineteen Tribes in Pennsylvania
Fragmentary reminiscence asserts that before leaving Pennsylvania for England in 1684, Penn formed treaties of friendship with nineteen tribes. The text suggests widespread reverence for his peaceful alliance approach among Meians and western New York communities, though some phrasing remains garbled.
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Penn
Indiana
Pennsylvania
England
Bill Brown Demonstrates Assault On Prosecutor
In a dramatic cross examination, Bill Brown testified he only pushed the prosecutor. He acted out the force by slapping, kicking, seizing, and hurling the attorney across a table, then claimed the gesture showed about one-tenth of the force.
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Bill Brown
Bill
Fortymile District Alaska and Its Gold Legacy
The Fortymile district in Alaska marks 1886 placer mining on the Fortymile river bars that drew hundreds of miners and spurred inland Alaska discovery leading to the Klondike placers. Since Fortymile’s discovery, over 6.5 million dollars of gold has come from the district amid a total Klondike and Alaska Yukon placer yield exceeding 200 million. The Fortymile Quadrangle report by the U S Geological Survey outlines this history.
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Fortymile
Alaska
Alaskan
Yukon
Klondike
Canadian
Boundaryi
Alasksa Yukon
United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Yukon-Tanana Region
Petals Missing In Showy Flowers Noted In Text
The passage explains that many showy flowers lack petals and rely on sepals or bracts for color. It cites examples such as lilies, tulips, Bougainvillea, poinsettias, dogwoods, and the milk white spathe of the calla as structures that provide the visual display.
Palindromic Wordplay and Notable Historical Quote
A palindrome is described as a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward. The note cites Napoleon’s supposed response to an invasion question: Able was I ere I saw Elba, illustrating how a reversal preserves meaning.
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Napoleon
England
Elba
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